Category Archives: World
Chief: Standoff with Gulfport police ends peacefully
GULFPORT, Miss. - Police in Mississippi say a standoff with an armed suspect has ended peacefully. Gulfport Police Chief Leonard Papania tells local news outlets the unidentified man is now in police ...
Jul 13, 2016
Pence introduces Trump at rally that doubles as VP audition
WESTFIELD, Ind. - Republican Donald Trump campaigned alongside Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Tuesday evening, the latest in a series of public auditions as the billionaire businessman mulls his vice-pres...
Jul 13, 2016
Poll: Most young people dislike GOP's Trump, say he's racist
NEW YORK - Donald Trump is wildly unpopular among young adults, in particular young people of colour, and nearly two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 30 believe the presumptive Republica...
Jul 13, 2016
NAACP: Trump declines offer to address civil rights group
ATLANTA - The NAACP says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has declined an invitation to address the group’s upcoming convention, flouting established precedent and highlighting ane...
Jul 13, 2016
AP FACT CHECK: Crime stats don't back Trump's dire view
WASHINGTON - In presenting himself as the “law and order” candidate for president, Donald Trump portrays a nation of lawlessness and disorder. That grim picture may speak to the visceral f...
Jul 13, 2016
US missile defence system to be placed in S. Korea farm town
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - An advanced U.S. missile defence system will be deployed in a rural farming town in southeastern South Korea, Seoul officials announced Wednesday, angering not only North K...
Jul 13, 2016
What's next in the South China Sea disputes
BEIJING - An international tribunal made a landmark ruling Tuesday rejecting China’s vast territorial claims in the South China Sea, handing the Philippines a victory and dealing a blow to Beiji...
Jul 13, 2016
William H McNeill, prize-winning world historian, dead at 98
NEW YORK - William H. McNeill, the prize-winning scholar who wove the stories of civilizations worldwide into the landmark “The Rise of the West” and helped pioneer the history of disease ...
Jul 13, 2016
DC's other 1600 Pennsylvania is source of humour, headaches
WASHINGTON - Presidential candidates work for years to move in to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. For 24-year-old Nicole Berns, moving in was much easier, requiring filling out a three-page form and paying $50...
Jul 13, 2016
California lawyers split from Cosby in latest legal shakeup
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Two powerhouse California lawyers have stepped down from Bill Cosby’s criminal sex-assault case in the latest shake-up of his legal team. Christopher Tayback and Joseph Sarles ...
Jul 13, 2016
